It's the first time in the history of the world.
It's too big!
In the middle of the night, there was a huge earthquake on Google.
Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis announces his resignation as CEO of Google DeepMind. He will hand over the day-to-day running of the company, serving as President of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet.
At the same time, Jeff Dean, the chief scientist at Google, has officially announced that he will be leaving the company with three of Google's top executives.
It was reported that Alphabet's stock price jumped 5.4 percent.A lot of people say: Google is dead...
This shift in personnel is not only a power restructuring within Google, but also a landmark in the history of AI development.
When the AGI became available, the geniuses began to turn their eyes to a more grandiose target group.
With AI completely rewriting the process of human scientific discoveries, step up to ASI!
Jeff Dean: Legend of the Curtain, out of business
Tomorrow will be the last day of Jeff Dean's 27 years at Google.
The chief scientist of Google has left too many legends.
Jeff Dean's keyboard has only two keys: 1 and 0.
When Jeff Dean listened to an MP3, he was looking at binary code.
In his 27 years at Google, from the early search infrastructure to the neural networks that laid the groundwork for modern AI, to TensorFlow and TPU chips, Jeff Dean has led a major transformation of Google and global technology almost on his own.
He recently announced that he will co-found Discovery Loop with his old friend and long-time partner Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le!
The company's core mission is to achieve automation of machine learning, science and engineering to accelerate human discovery and progress.
In other words, creating an AI scientist who can automate the "doing experiments, implementing, evaluating, producing results".
For this purpose, Jeff Dean formed a luxurious "Fantastic Team".
1. Jeff Dean: The soul of Google AI.
Sanjay Ghemawat: Jeff Dean, a senior researcher at Google, has been a "code soul mate" for 30 years. Together, they created MapReduce, BigTable, which defines the cornerstone of modern big data.
3. Quoc Le: Father of AutoML, key figure in the Seq2Seq breakthrough.
4. Oriol Vinyals: The core head of Gemini, the creator of AI "AlphaStar".
The four hard-working grandchildren chose collective cleanliness today and started again.
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Vinyals gives a very decent explanation: large organizations always accumulate strong inertia, and they need extreme focus to create something completely different.
In the face of this "bloodless" ordeal, the CEO was decent enough to invest money in Jeff Dean's new company and provide cloud services and computing support.
And then the circle went crazy.
Currently, the Discovery Loop seed round of financing is largely closed. It is led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Silicon Valley's top capital such as Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins and others in the pipeline.
Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, has not been able to hide his excitement.
The team is able to redefine the way engineering and scientific research works. If successful, its impact will not be measured by software functionality or benchmark testing, but by new science that improves the lives of billions of people. This impact may be as big as when we invested in Sam Altman's OpenAI in 2018!
It has been said that we are back in Silicon Valley in 2002: a bubble has just broken and a new company that really changes the world is starting to grow again from the rubble.
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, "AGI is available".
Hassabis's transfer of power meant something like "the right to be free of booze".
He sends a very passionate letter.
We're at a pivotal moment in human history. I've spent my entire life working to achieve AGI, and now, like many of you, I feel it's at hand.
As a result, he decided that he would no longer be confined to his daily routine.
He officially announced his resignation as head of Google DeepMind's day-to-day operations, handing over the CEO's staff.
His new role is as president of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet.
A message from Musk congratulates
From then on, he only did two things.
The first is to focus on long-term strategies to guide global AGI affairs to ensure the safety and well-being of people.
The second is to cure human disease!
He will put a lot of energy into Isomorphic Labs because "improving human health, fighting cancer, is the best way AI can prove its value to the world".
In 2023, with the merger of DeepMind and Google's brain, Hassabis will be the mastermind.
Now that the president has been elevated, it sounds like he has been elevated, but in fact, the hardest power has been given to him (e.g. how to model, how to allocate resources).
The reason for this is that the time scale is different.
The product team is timed by "week" and "month", but Hassabis' vision is timed by "decade" or even "human history".
The vast Empire of the Deep Mind will be handed over to Koray Kavukcuoglu.
He will be promoted to Senior Vice President (SVP) of Google DeepMind, reporting directly to Toshiba.
The 13-year veteran of GDM, who has been Google's chief AI architect, is also expected to become SVP.
In addition, in a letter to Hassabis, he also threw an egg: Gemini 4 has made significant progress!
In recent days, the Gemini 3.5 pro has been featured in the L.M. Arena.
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Interestingly enough, the shock came to an end, and some of the parties kept their dignity to the end.
On X, Thich Nhat Hanh was the first to post announcing changes to Hassabis and Koray Kavukcuoglu.
Hassabis subsequently issued a statement confirming this.
Jeff Dean then announced his retirement from the business, and Cheech wrote a thank you note, calling Dean "unparalleled", thanking him for his 27 years.
The four posts that landed on the front and the back showed that it was good to practice early: Google put the change and the general out on the same morning announcement, hoping that good news will cover up bad news.
Unfortunately, the 5.4% drop also shows how much Jeff Dean is worth in the minds of investors.
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The winds have completely changed from AIGC to ASI.
And the two subtle changes in human behavior are consistent at the core.
Both Jeff Dean and Hassabis targeted ASI in roughly the same way.
While one is automation of machine learning and one is biopharmaceuticals, the common thread is to get humans out of the bottleneck of scientific discovery.
At present, the human brain and energy are the biggest drag on the evolution of AI.
What the Discovery Loop wants to do is eliminate this waiting time.
They envisioned AI that could run a thousand simultaneous experiments in the cloud. The AI itself proposed the hypothesis, called its own computational validation, evaluated its own results, and then automatically designed the next generation of stronger AI based on lessons learned from the failure.
This is the legendary recurring RSI of self-improvement when AI becomes involved in improving the way AI is made!
Once this closed loop is opened, the rules will be completely rewritten.
In the future, it's a question of who will be the next generation of AI to "be born automatically" faster. The speed of research will no longer be limited to humans, but will increase exponentially and explosively!
As Hassabis put it: "I'm so excited about our next chapter, the best is yet to come!"